By Nicola Nasser*
Arabs, at least at the non-official level, were quick to hail President George W. Bush’s mid-term electoral defeat and the humiliating downfall of his war architect Donald Rumsfeld, but cheering the Democrats’ victory has yet to wait and may not be voiced at all.
Why hailing Bush’s defeat? Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, Jim Hogland, of The Washington Post had part of the answer: “Bush lost more than a midterm election and a cantankerous defense secretary (…)
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No Arab, Palestinian Cheers for U.S. Democrats
13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Global growth in carbon emissions is ’out of control’
13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Global growth in carbon emissions is ’out of control’
By Steve Connor Science Editor
Published: 11 November 2006
The growth in global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels over the past five years was four times greater than for the preceding 10 years, according to a study that exposes critical flaws in the attempts to avert damaging climate change.
Data on carbon dioxide emissions shows that the global growth rate was 3.2 per cent in the five years to 2005 compared with (…) -
N.PELOSI Is neo-cons puppet
13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsWITH SUCH "DEMOCRATS" WAR WITOUT END IN MIDDLE EAST AND AGAINST HUMANITY WILL CONTINUE
Pelosi’s Israel Connection
Jennifer Jacobson
JTA Wire Service
NOVEMBER 10, 2006
Washington
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GILAD ATZMON" If He Is Israeli Left, Who Needs Right?"
13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Deconstructing David Grossman
http://www.gilad.co.uk/html%20files/grossman.html
The world, so it seems, is giving a standing ovation to the new Israeli orator, the author, David Grossman. Israel’s public relations desperately needs a righteous intellectual, an author who ‘talks peace’, a man who preaches ‘reconciliation’, a man of shalom . Yesterday the Guardian published Grossman’s last week speech at the Yitzchak Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv. (…) -
Open Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers: We the People are Setting the Table Now
13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
12 commentsDear Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Conyers,
I am writing this open letter to you both on the day after Veteran’s Day. A day that has so much more meaning to me since my son Casey was KIA in Iraq for absolutely no reason but to line the pockets of the war machine. I cried in front of his symbolic tombstone at Arlington Northeast in Philadelphia and I dreamed of him before I awakened. Casey’s "tombstone" was planted in the ground directly across from Liberty Hall which was the birth place of our (…) -
Impeachment Call Echoes Near Independence Hall
12 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 comments"In the U.S., our first executive magistrate is...subject to censure, if necessary, to punishment. He is the...’accountable’ magistrate of a free and great people." - Del. James Wilson (1)
Philadelphia, PA - Within shouting distance of fabled Independence Hall, representatives from a nationwide coalition of organizations met on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006, to call for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. In the National Constitution Center’s Kirby Auditorium, across the street (…) -
Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse
11 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsExclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the outgoing Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo By ADAM ZAGORIN Posted Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week (…)
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A Return To Reality
10 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Wayne Besen
In the very week Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, George W. Bush has found his presidency in the gallows. Hussein now awaits his fate as a dead duck, while Bush will usher in his final two years as a lame duck. How bitterly ironic it must be that the Democratic landslide victory was fueled on outrage over the quagmire in Iraq and the president’s refusal to "change the course" even after the facts repeatedly changed on the ground. This is more a victory for reality than (…) -
The Boys Are Back in Town
9 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Cheney and Rumsfeld are on the outs. Scowcroft, Baker and Gates are in. Can they get America out of Iraq?
WEB EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Howard Fineman Newsweek Updated: 5:11 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2006
Nov. 8, 2006 - President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy is now in the political equivalent of receivership-a bankrupt project that is about to be placed in the hands of the worldly-wise pragmatists who surrounded the president’s own father. Think of them as receivers in bankruptcy, looking for ways (…) -
Saddam’s Trial in Context: Episode of Victors’ Injustice
9 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Nicola Nasser*
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/176/32/
American and European official and public opinion reactions to Saddam Hussein’s guilty verdict on Sunday artificially removed both the trial and the death sentence out of context and focused instead on “flaws” in the legal technicalities of a fair trial and on death penalty as a punishment, which exposed the trial/s in Baghdad as merely another episode in the U.S.-British so far unsuccessful efforts to establish (…)